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WHATSA MATTA WITH KIDS TODAY

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Cintra Wilson
Nov 12, 2024
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Kids these days….I dunno, man.  I work with a bunch of gorgeous 22 to 26 year olds.  I serve kids their age at the bar, and you know what they are drinking?  In a wine bar? People in their twenties?   Water, non-alcoholic “mocktails” and tea.  

They aren’t even fucking, as far as I can tell, apart from the lesbians, who seem to have designated my wine bar as a first date joint.  It’s an odd new breed of lesbian, these gals - very old-school preppy:  Fair-Isle sweaters and lots of Eastern college hoodies.  They all seem like prep school Muffies with Yankee parents who just got out of Sarah Lawrence and celebrated by getting one or two surprisingly brazen tattoos. 

Tuesday nights are a veritable women’s bathhouse, ever since the building we’re in turned on the radiator heat and Brooklyn is unseasonably warm for mid-November.  The estrogen haze can fog up your gl…

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